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to do with it. It is fun for me to read the letters when I do not know them before.  Gerdie has so much sense. She puts them through it & yet does not tell them too much. You can see that yourself. She is a perfect darling - I know she will always be the same. I did not tell you in my last because she had not written to Constance but she is engaged to a rich young Englishman, whose mother is a "lady" & he is the nephew of Sir Robert Peel. He came up here to see her on his way to N.T. to take the steamer home, & it all happened here! Only think of the romance. He came about 9 in the morning, & they